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Okay, so I was reading in another thread about how there are different bolts.

I guess the bolt that was designed for single stack magazine guns is different than that for the double stack mags.

Does anyone have a picture of these two bolts side by side for comparison?

I'd love to see what they look like and how they differ.

I have an AMD-65 FEG build. I know that when it came into the country the mag well was for single stack mags and Century or whomever had to open up the mag well. So that got me to wondering....."Is my bolt a single or double stack?"

A friend of mine owns a genuine pre ban AK from Egypt and we compared our two bolts. There was virtually no difference at all. The lug in the front which catches the bullet and guides it in were almost exactly the same size. His was just a touch wider, about .020 (that's 20 thousandths of an inch difference).

I have a hard time believing what I have is NOT a double stack bolt. There's no way this bolt could pass through the opening in the top of a single stack mag.....I think. I don't actually have a single stack mag here to check, but I'm assuming that the difference would be much greater than 20 thousandths.

Given all the carping over the hi-cap PAPs single-stack bolts, was wondering how all the bagillion home-hi-capped WASRs with single-stack bolts could work so well - while the PAPs supposedly have so many issues.

WASR and AMD and other imports have standard milsurp bolts.
The PAP Yugoslavian rifles are the main source of the single stack bolt talk these days.

Iirc, the SA-2000M Hungarian rifles also had bolts made for single stack mags.. and problems similar to the PAP's when it comes to reliably feeding from standard double-stack mags. I'm unaware of any other foreign AK's that are imported without standard bolts.

My SA2000 has a narrow feed part that will only feed rounds from the right side of the magazine. To convert it to double stack magazines I had to buy a new bolt, trigger guard, mag catch and widen the magazine well.

My 1973-arsenal-dated single-stack "GP WASR 10/63" has the single-stack bolt on the left, my dub-stack Draco has the dub-stack bolt as on the right.

So - how is it that folks can hog-out single-stack WASRs with their single-stack bolts - and not have any issues, while PAPs with single-stack bolts have so many issues?

Good question. In the above picture the single stack bolt on the left is out of my PAP. I replaced it without having fired it after the conversion as I felt that there was not enough contact with the rear of the round being fed out of the magazine. It MAY have worked OK, I just didn't want to take a chance on having feeding issues.

One of these days I might take it to the range with the original bolt and see how it works. Perhaps the bolt on the WASR is the original double stack bolt and they don't change it for the single stack imports?

But I still don't see what all the hoopala is about regarding changing out the bolt. It takes way less than a minute to do it and quite honestly if I had a WASR that was converted and it had a bolt like the PAP does, I would change it.

My AMD is an SA-2000M receiver. It's stamped right on the bottom near the mag well. And as I said, my bolt is the standard mil surp double stack bolt.

Is there a serial number on the sheet metal or just on the front trunnion?

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If what you have is one of the tgi import feg guns, you will have a double stack bolt. Both of mine do, and the others i know of locally do too. The bolt to the eye is virtually identical to my m92 pistol.

My Maadi bolt measures ~0.420" across the face...vertically in the pic below.

Then the battery died in my calipers!......dammit!...but I got a realquick measurement around ~0.180-0.2? horizontally...JUST before the display quit!

I'll get another battery tomorrow & try again...

Had a thought tho.... I checked the 5-round magazine that shipped withthe rifle originally (like everyone’s)...and there are TWO rows deep andTWO columns wide of bullets in the 5-round magazine….just like all myhi-caps…

ALL of the Military-Issue 30 & 40-round steel magazines fit & lock in place fine…and very easily cycle…outer appearance of ALL is same also….

Even if I lock a mag in and run the bolt to empty the mag….everything issmooth & good…

same here, I have a ZASTAVA M70 single-stack PAP bolt (the one not with a Picantinny dust cover) and would like to replace with AKM bolts (any will do right, like from Apexgunparts etc)...other mods are done already

I know this thread is old, but I'm glad it was posted and folks were willing to describe as well as post pictures. That's worth a lot in my book. Sometimes archives hold plenty of treasures. Luckily they still come up in Google search results.